Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-189) and index
Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Abbreviations; General Editors' Preface; Introduction and Acknowledgments; 1 "3 or 4 Families in a Country Village," or Naturalists, Novelists, Empiricists, and Serendipidists; 2 "An Entangled Bank," or Sibling Development in a Family Ecosystem; 3 "Marry -- Mary -- Marry"; 4 Variations on Variation; Select Bibliography; Index
Are Austen and Darwin the two great English empiricists of the nineteenth century? Peter W. Graham brings these two icons of nineteenth-century British culture into intellectual conversation by situating both writers in the empirical tradition. Employing trenchant analysis informed by a wealth of historical and biographical detail and recent work by historians of science, Graham's comparative study gives us a new entree into Austen's and Darwin's writings
